Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Region served	South Yorkshire
Type	NHS Foundation Trust
Chair	Tony Pedder
Chief Exec	Sir Andrew Cash OBE

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest of the United Kingdom's current 152 NHS Foundation Trusts. The Chief Executive is Sir Andrew Cash and the Medical Director Dr David Throssell.

The organisation provides healthcare services for people in the Sheffield area and surrounding area of South Yorkshire and beyond. The trust provides a very wide range of specialities, and consists of two main parts.

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a separate organisation.

Besides being a major healthcare services provider, providing over 900,000 appointments and operations each year, it also provides clinical education for medical students from the University of Sheffield. The Trust uses the Single Transferable Vote voting system to elect its Members' Council.

The Trust and its hospitals have close links with the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

In 2013 it was asked to support Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a result of the Keogh Review

In January 2015 the Trust announced a deal with HP Enterprise Services UK, Orion Health and Imprivata to give clinicians secure online access to patients' medical records, enabling "more joined up working between community, acute and primary care professionals".

It is one of the biggest provider of specialised services in England, which generated an income of £295.9 million in 2014/5.

The Trust was highlighted by NHS England as having 3 out of the 148 reported never events in England in the period from April to September 2013.

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